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Minasz (Menashe) Sankiewicz was born in Warsaw in 1924. He worked as a tailor. His parents were Smul and Fajga Sankiewicz (née Abramovicz). He was deported from Warsaw ghetto to Majdanek concentration camp and on to camps in Jaworzno, Sachsenhausen and later Buchenwald. Minasz was transferred from Gross-Rosen camp to Buchenwald concentration camp in February 1945. He worked at Stein labour camp. According ...

The Jacob Birnbaum papers consist of an identification card documenting Jacob Birnbaum’s status as a concentration camp survivor and letters Jacob wrote to Rose (Róża) Strzegowska (later Rose Rothschild), an inmate at the women’s camp, while both were imprisoned at Langenbielau concentration camp, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen, during the Holocaust. Birnbaum had been exchanging letters with Rose’s twin ...

Discusses the internment and annihilation of Jews in 18 camps during World War II: concentration camps Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dora, Flossenbürg, Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen, Natzweiler-Struthof, Neuengamme, Ravensbrück, Sachsenhausen, Stutthof; and extermination camps Auschwitz, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, Treblinka. Deals with the history and organization of the camps, based on ...

Contains information about various concentration and labor camps in Europe from 1939 to 1945. The bulk of the collection contains lists of prisoners who were transported between concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Dachau, Flossenbü̈rg, Gross Rosen, Dora-Mittelbau, Mauthausen, Neuengamme, Ravensbrück and Buchenwald. These lists contain information about the place and date of birth, occupation, ...

The collection includes an identification photograph of Helena Zymler taken in Łódź, Poland, in 1946.

The collection consists of photographs documenting German-occupied Oświęcim, Poland, circa 1940-circa 1941, and refugees living in the Münchberg, Germany, displaced persons camp, circa 1946. The photographs of Oświęcim include depictions of buildings, Jewish men forcibly having their beards and sidelocks (peyot) cut off, street scenes, and Jews clearing snow under the presence of a German soldier. ...

The Rose Kaplovitz papers consist of correspondence, autograph books, and photographs documenting the lives of Rose and her family in Sosnowiec, Będzin, and Łazy. The collections relates to their experiences before the Holocaust, Rose’s survival in the Sosnowiec ghetto and Ober-Altstadt forced labor camp, and her postwar life in a Jewish orphanage in Chorzów and at the Leipheim displaced persons camp. ...

Michael Honey was born Michael Honigwachs on September 3, 1929 in Nový Jicín, Czechoslovakia. He lived in Valasske Mezirici before the Holocaust. He survived the Theresienstadt ghetto and the Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Mauthausen, Gross Rosen, and Gunskirchen camps before liberation. He immigrated to England in 1945 and then to Israel in 2002. Honey developed a method of drawing parallel family trees he ...

Instytut Higieny Waffen-SS i Policji w KL Auschwitz (Hygiene Institut der Waffen-SS und Polizei Auschwitz O/S) powstał jesienią 1942 r. jako filia Głównego Urzędu Higieny SS, który podlegał Głównemu Urzędowi Sanitarnemu SS (SS-Hauptsanitäramt) w Berlinie. Do wiosny 1943 r. siedzibą Instytutu Higieny SS był obóz macierzysty KL Auschwitz I w Oświęcimiu. Następnie placówkę przeniesiono do Rajska, gdzie ...